"You encounter so many people within society who have been brainwashed to upend cultural and traditional norms in favor of Woke beliefs that are so far removed from reality."
Quite right! I started posting on social media because I was SHOCKED at the suppression and distortion of important facts and stories which I saw in the media. I wanted people to know the thinsg that I knew-not believe the things that I believed. Democracy becomes very difficult when voters don't share even a basic suite of facts and assumptions.
Something would happen and I would check google... and some mid-subscription conservative website would have a single article about it. Mass shootings. Endemic corruption. Scientific fraud.
The legacy media isn't worthless because it's biased. It's worthless because it refuses to report on huge centers of power in our society, actively protecting them even when they're drifting away from their mission of actively harming people.
Fortunately it seems that most informed and non-ideologically captured folks are aware of this. The viewers of CNN and the readers of the NYT tend to be older and richer and whiter than average, and more die every day. The most independent and curious young people are not replacing them. They are dying, and I perceive the process to be speeding up!
"You encounter so many people within society who have been brainwashed to upend cultural and traditional norms in favor of Woke beliefs that are so far removed from reality."
Quite right! I started posting on social media because I was SHOCKED at the suppression and distortion of important facts and stories which I saw in the media. I wanted people to know the thinsg that I knew-not believe the things that I believed. Democracy becomes very difficult when voters don't share even a basic suite of facts and assumptions.
Something would happen and I would check google... and some mid-subscription conservative website would have a single article about it. Mass shootings. Endemic corruption. Scientific fraud.
The legacy media isn't worthless because it's biased. It's worthless because it refuses to report on huge centers of power in our society, actively protecting them even when they're drifting away from their mission of actively harming people.
Fortunately it seems that most informed and non-ideologically captured folks are aware of this. The viewers of CNN and the readers of the NYT tend to be older and richer and whiter than average, and more die every day. The most independent and curious young people are not replacing them. They are dying, and I perceive the process to be speeding up!
https://jmpolemic.substack.com/p/our-flailing-elites?r=1neg52